Windows 7 Starter 64 Bit Now

For the handful of people who used it, it was a daily reminder of why you should never buy the cheapest Windows license. For Microsoft, it was a footnote — an embarrassing one — quickly forgotten when Windows 8 unified the kernel and eventually made Starter editions extinct.

If it says "32-bit," you have the common variant. windows 7 starter 64 bit

At the time, a 64-bit OS required more storage space for system files and driver overhead, resources that were precious on the tiny 16GB or 32GB hard drives found in netbooks. Furthermore, 64-bit architecture is most beneficial when a computer has more than 4GB of RAM. Since Windows 7 Starter was capped at utilizing 2GB of RAM (and netbooks were physically limited to that amount), a 64-bit version would have offered zero performance benefits while consuming valuable disk space. For the handful of people who used it,

64-bit allowed the CPU to handle larger data chunks per clock cycle. Applications compiled for 64-bit (rare in 2011) ran marginally faster. More importantly, the system could actually use 4GB of RAM, whereas the 32-bit version would waste ~1GB. At the time, a 64-bit OS required more